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DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.
Verboticisms
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Shidosyncrasy
Created by: Erik1
Pronunciation: Shid-e-o-syn-crow-see
Sentence: For shidosyncrasy the poison was in the dose.
Etymology: Shutdown (or perhaps another word) ;) + idiosyncrasy
Intimesstation
Created by: alphabetapolothology
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His intimesstation of uncontrollable gas had become a black cloud in their relationship.
Etymology: intimate + mess + irritation
Sexappall
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: seks-uh-pall
Sentence: Over time, Sue realized that Bob had developed sexappall; not only did he pass gas in public, he loudly rated his emissions on a scale of 1 to 10.
Etymology: sex appeal, appall
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COMMENTS:
maybe that explains the wilted flowers - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 13:22:00
Very likely. Who would want a fartner with such a terrible characteristink? - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 14:43:00
You'd better be careful purple - this infiltration of verbospeak may require a verbotomy lobotomy - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 15:40:00
Lingosuction? OHNOOOOOOOOOO!!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 17:27:00
this is getting wordiculous...absword even - rikboyee, 2007-02-15: 19:31:00
(Methinks rikboyee needs lingosuction more than I.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 19:42:00
very funny! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 21:11:00
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Vexitating
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: vex-i-ta-ting
Sentence: Sam was the most vexitating man I ever knew. He had more bad habits than an alcoholic nun.
Etymology: vex: to cause annoyance by minor irritations + irritating: chafe; aggravating
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COMMENTS:
Lol. I\'ve known a few Sams too. - artr, 2009-09-09: 12:21:00
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Chewumuy
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: che-wu-mu-ae
Sentence: I took him for a nice guy when first i met him in university but he proved a chewumuy latter on , i just hate these fellows.
Etymology: chewing + gum. chew form chewing, um from gum. uy from guy. chewing gum tastes great at start but just gets irritating latter on.
Divugnance
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His once endearing habit of winking at her was quickly becoming a divugnance.
Etymology: from diversion as in quirk, abboration or abnomality and repugnance as in distaste, repulsion and resentment.
Relationslip
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: ree/lay/shun/slip
Sentence: Playing air guitar every time he said something funny was cute at first but turned into a giant relationslip
Etymology: relationship + slip
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COMMENTS:
This is good and goofy! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 17:13:00
thanks wordmeister - porsche, 2007-02-16: 09:38:00
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Annoyhilate
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ənoiəlāt
Sentence: Genny really didn*t know how break up with Peter, so she set out to annoyhilate their relationship. He was able to tolerate the **dainties** hanging in the shower and the load of laundry where she **accidently** washed all his whites with her new red blouse. He could even grin and bear it when she picked her teeth in public. What finally put it over the edge and sent him packing was her laugh/snort. And she hadn*t even planned that one.
Etymology: annoy [irritate (someone); make (someone) a little angry] + annihilate [destroy utterly; obliterate]
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COMMENTS:
good word...well describes all those annoyhellations! - Nosila, 2009-09-09: 14:39:00
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Jiltrait
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: jill-trate (rhymes with filtrate)
Sentence: Hogan wondered why his relationships never lasted; finally a friend told him about all of his bad jiltraits.
Etymology: jilt + trait
Quirkedout
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: qwerked-out
Sentence: Julie was quirkedout by Dan's annoying habbit of clicking his teeth.
Etymology: quirk + past tense + out
Comments:
wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...
ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.